Here is the uni’s press release, though unlike for Becky’s boredom paper, media interest has been weirdly absent (think tumbleweeds and the sound of crickets chirping). Think there’s been to much real news in the world this week, and also PLOS ONE didn’t do a release – that made a real difference last time. Ah well, I love the study anyway, and here is the paper itself.

Fascinating “Philosophy Bites” find from Maria (we’ve discussed a couple of these in our group “journal clubs”, I’ve just not written them up yet…).

So: ethics philosophers are morally troubled by eating mammals, but they don’t actually change their behaviour; and ethics books are highly likely to go missing from libraries! For more on how and why, click here.

The International Journal for Comparative Psychology accepted our paper this week. Mike claimed they were the nicest referees’ comments he had ever had! One of them said, “the warning of overreliance on corticosteroids and the discussion regarding sentience, are responsibly written, comprehensive and thought provoking”: I’ve never had someone comment on how “responsibly” I write before! The only downside was that they did not want our lovely “word cloud” : (